18-05-2015 - International Coaching Week 2015

International Coaching Week: Clean Language

Caitlin Walker

Clean Language is used to inspire capability in groups and individuals. It is a language of inquiry without any suggestion of the answer. We start by asking, "What you would like to have happen?" We listen carefully and use clean questions to help you understand more about what you want.

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Full Day Session: The 1-day Introduction to Clean Language is designed to give a ‘taster’ of what is possible to achieve with this powerful methodology, along with the basic skills needed to get started. We will cover:

The basic Clean Language questions

Demonstration of clean coaching

What assumptions you are making a split second after someone speaks

How to keep your assumptions to yourself so you can work with clients’ actual experiences

How to uncover the structure of someone’s thinking by developing the metaphors they naturally use to express themselves

Evening Session:

Our evening workshop is highly interactive and introduces a process for using Clean Questions and Embodied Metaphors as highly efficient Team Coaching techniques:

What is Clean Language?

What are embodied and conversational metaphors?

Asking one another Clean Questions to develop understanding and groups learning

Creating self-coaching organizations

Using Coaching as an organizational development tool

Objectives

Learning the basic Clean Language questions and how to ask them for maximum effect within your wider coaching session

Enhancing your communications with listening and questioning skills

How to apply the principles of Clean Language in different coaching contexts

Learning the Clean Language tools for clarifying your client's desired outcomes and motivating them to take action

Discovering the structure beneath the metaphors we use to describe our everyday experiences

After studying with the originator of Clean Language, David Grove, Caitlin developed a wide range of group level application for this method. She designs and delivers tailor made learning and development programs for addressing diversity, conflict, leadership, managing mergers and creating ‘learning organizations’.